Suicide Fish? How many have you had?

[neogenix]

So my spotted blennie took a dive out the tank today, and we didn't notice for a few hours, thus he became a dead spotted blennie. How many fish have you guys lost to a suicide dive?

[Meslo]

0 but 2 golden dwarf morays soon by starvation if they dont start to eat :(

[saabtech]

one dartfish (orange firefish) he got kicked out of the group of three and decided he couldnt take the rejection.

[kkiel02]

One orange spot goby here. He was with me about a year until he jumped through the eggcrate.

[neogenix]

These Blennies and Goby's seem to be notorious jumpers...

[Europhyllia]

Two Midas Blennies. :(

Here's one amazing thing I learned on RC (unfortunately too late):

even if fish already feels sticky and dried out it is worth throwing it back into water because especially blennies can rehydrate and bounce back -even hours after they've been out of water!

I found my favorite midas blenny all sticky and stiff and I threw him away! :( Days later I read that on RC and felt so guilty. Who knows maybe he was still alive and I could have just tried it.

Needless to say after any time I work in the aquarium and had the lid off I now do a blenny count...

[neogenix]

Two Midas Blennies. :(

Here's one amazing thing I learned on RC (unfortunately too late):

even if fish already feels sticky and dried out it is worth throwing it back into water because especially blennies can rehydrate and bounce back -even hours after they've been out of water!

I found my favorite midas blenny all sticky and stiff and I threw him away! :( Days later I read that on RC and felt so guilty. Who knows maybe he was still alive and I could have just tried it.

Needless to say after any time I work in the aquarium and had the lid off I now do a blenny count...

I found mine stiff and sickly looking, tossed it into some water for an hour or so, maybe nearly 1.5 hours, and nothing :( I eventually gave him a good little burial. My wife's rather sad, it was her fish :(

[justahobby]

Sadly I've had several Kamikazes. One firefish, 2 mandarins, and a niger trigger.

[Kristy]

SO, so many stupid carpet-surfing kamikaze fish lost over the years. Most frustrating thing ever is to have a nice healthy fish that has been doing great in the tank for months and then find it on the floor.

Karin, I have done the thing where you put them back in the water and hope for a miracle. Once it revived the fish, but the hardship was too much and the poor little guy did not make it more than a day. Another time I stood there holding Mike's all-time favorite fish in the tank, with tears streaming down my face for a LONG time before Mike made me give up. It was absolutely awful.

Jumpers include: flame hawk pictured in my avatar that was trained to perch on my hand, Mike's long-nosed hawk, clown fairy wrasse, Randall's goby x 2, diamond goby, firefish, green spotted mandarin, seems like there's another one I am forgetting. Needless to say we are religious about using our egg crate tops.

[Big_Pun]

exquisite wrasse out the back door of a biocube 29, and 3 days ago a algae blenny

[Jarob]

:( a tiger jawfish and a cleaner wrasse

[ramsey]

I haven't had any that were successfully. I had a firefish try to jump out of the bucket when I was acclimating. I quickly threw him back in and told him it wasn't his time. I am a gracious master.

[ismvel]

Golden Headed Sleeper Goby
Bartelet Anthia